The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-05-12
The matted ana ,noiled cbild Of parents In

the petted and spoiled child Of parents In
comfortable circumstances. INDUCED in
my every desire, flattered and obeyed, with
out any knowledge OF sorrow or suffering,
grew up heartless and giddy woman. I'm
afraid from being merely callousto others
feelings grew TO take pleasure in their
pain. At any rate know i married my
husband less from any fancy for him than
from wish to spite other girls, who saw
were angling for him.
HE was a doctor Of very polished man
ners and considerable energy, who was
rapidly winning his way into the first rank
of his profession. But, If / were spiteful,
he was absolutely cruel. He took a posi-
| tive pleasure in inficting pain. Wherever
there was suffering 10 be witnessed he was
| delighted TO be present. / well remember
how, though he was physician, and not a
surgeon, he used TO be annoyed II any
very frightful operation was performed
without his seeing it. He pretended he
only wished TO see it for information's sake.
| knew better
'.We had one daughter born-a pretty,
fair-haired blue-eyed creature, just like
your child While she was a baby my hus-
band paid no attention to her, but as soon
as she grew old enough and began to be
able to run about and talk little, she, I'M
fortunately for herself, was not long in at
tracing his notice. He watched her about
the room and continually found fault with
her. As sure as he found fault with her
he beat her AT first this cruelty revolted
me, but, God pardon me, gradually grew
TO take pleasure in It, / could listen TO
the poor girls. screams without shudder;
nay, sometimes almost with delight.
Iax. lttfln thing committed
some fault which an ordinary mother
would have thought fully punished by a
mild correction; but took her to my hus-
band and asked him to punish her With a
smile he went for his walking-cane. With
It he fogged and retlogged the child till
she was black and blue. He ceased, TO
rest himself, and then began again. The
child's screams were dreadful. The sery-
ants at last could bear it no longer.
Headed by the coachman, they came into
the room and demanded that the punish
ment should cease. MY husband ordered
them out. The coachman refused TO go,
and when my husband, overcome with
rage, struck him with the cane, the man
knocked him down. and, lifting the child in
his arms, walked out of the house before
we could stop him, and took her straight 10
the police station.
"rhe police surgeon reported that the
child would probablydie Wewere arrested
and detained in the prison for time, but
when 1t was found that the child was rccov-
ering we were liberated and merely fined
thanks to the position my husband had one
time occupied and TO the fact Of our not be.
ing taken before an i'm partial judge. But
my husbands practice was naturally ruined,
so he resolved to go abroad. Happily for
the child, he determined to abandon her.
She, heard, was adopted by my brother.
"My husband and | went abroad. He
| failed to prosper wherever we went The
| brutality he once expended on our child he
now turned upon me. You see these scars
They are evidence Of his tr eatment, At last
he died in Jail, where he had been sent for
a brutal attack upon poor woman who
happened to offend him in public house,
| and was left penniless in strange land.
.'Do you think deserve your kindness
now!'
"You have never done me wrong, replied
| Gertrude, at the same time trembling VIC
lently aud looking as deathly pale as the
dying woman.
'Never done you wrongln said the stran-
| ger, excitedly.
mot to my knowledge, y muttered Ger
trude, as her ott-recurring dream came Wv
| idly before her
"God forgive me " exclaimed the woman,
with a low, dying moan. "Gertrude, God
grant you may forgive me- You were that
child am your mother'p-LoRdOa Truth.